New Jersey Foreign Registration / Wyoming-formed LLCs

A Wyoming-formed LLC in New Jersey: certificate, agent and what it adds up to

A Wyoming LLC pays New Jersey $100 to register and Wyoming $60 for its yearly minimum, which makes $160 in the first year. Wyoming charges $0 for the good standing certificate New Jersey asks for, so the home paper adds nothing to that total.

Wyoming and New Jersey compared

What	Wyoming	New Jersey
Yearly requirement	$60 minimum	$75 report
Proof of standing	$0 certificate	Certificate issued at home
Cost to enter	Already formed	$100 to the Treasury
Agent	The Wyoming agent on file	A second agent, based in New Jersey

Printing the certificate costs nothing

With a certificate that is free, an old copy can be thrown away and a new one printed on the day of filing. New Jersey names no age limit for an LLC's certificate, so the freshest copy is the cleanest answer.

You need a second agent

The Wyoming agent covers Wyoming only. For New Jersey the filing takes one agent, an individual or a corporation in good standing with the Treasurer, plus a New Jersey street address for the registered office.

Filling in the filing for a Wyoming LLC

State of formation: Wyoming. Date of formation: the date on the Wyoming record. Purpose: a plain sentence about the New Jersey activity. An authorized representative signs. The item-by-item page shows the rest.

The arithmetic

Registration is $100. With Wyoming's $60 minimum the first year's state charges are $160. A Delaware LLC in the same position pays $500, because Delaware's tax is $400. Our charge of $199 is extra.

Privacy stops at the border

The New Jersey filing is public, so anyone who looks can see the principal office and the agent's address. Decide which addresses to use before submitting.

Case: a Wyoming LLC with a shop in Newark

A Wyoming LLC signs a lease on a shop in Newark and staffs it. That is continuing activity, and registration follows. The owner prints the Wyoming certificate, appoints a New Jersey agent and files for $100. Each year after, Wyoming collects its $60 minimum and New Jersey collects its report fee.

Case: a Wyoming holding company with a New Jersey subsidiary

If the Wyoming LLC owns shares or membership interests in an operating LLC in New Jersey but has no property or staff of its own here, the registration question turns mainly on the operating LLC's activity, and a lawyer should confirm. A holding company that owns the building itself is different, because income-producing property triggers the rule.

If Wyoming standing lapses

A Wyoming lapse means the home paper filed with New Jersey no longer reflects the LLC's real status. Set reminders for the Wyoming date as well as the free ones New Jersey provides.

Registering a Wyoming LLC in New Jersey

Check Wyoming standing
File any overdue Wyoming report.
Print the certificate
It is free from Wyoming.
Pick the New Jersey agent
A New Jersey street address plus an email for notices.
Complete the filing
Wyoming as the state of formation.
Submit and pay
$100 to the Treasury.
File NJ-REG
Tax registration after approval.

The LLC designator

Wyoming LLCs end their names with an LLC designator, and New Jersey's accepted endings are LTD Liability Co., LTD Liability Company, Limited Liability Co., Limited Liability Company or L.L.C.. If the Wyoming name uses a different form of the ending, the Division adds a designator it accepts, so check how it appears on the approved record.

Using the Wyoming registered agent as your contact

Keep the Wyoming agent's details out of the New Jersey filing. A New Jersey filing that lists a Wyoming address as the registered office does not meet the street-address rule, so papers served here would have nowhere to go.

The New Jersey side after approval

A Wyoming LLC owes New Jersey a report of $75 each year, and the online service sends free reminders. Two missed years in a row can end the authority, and reinstating costs $75 plus the reports.

Changes and exits for a Wyoming LLC

A new New Jersey agent is $25, an amendment is $100 and a cancellation is $125. Registering and then cancelling comes to $225 in state fees, while Wyoming keeps its own minimum running.

If the Wyoming LLC already worked here

A Wyoming LLC that did business in New Jersey before registering faces a fine of $200 for each year or part of a year, and it cannot sue in a New Jersey court until it registers.

Other Wyoming entity types

A corporation formed in Wyoming pays $100 and a nonprofit $100; both are covered on the corporate filers page.

Closing the New Jersey registration

A certificate of cancellation costs $125, and Wyoming's report carries on regardless. See the cancellation page.

Registered agent: first year included, then $149 a year

$199 plus the state fee, including your first year of registered agent service; after that the agent service renews at $149 a year.

Wyoming LLC questions

Will New Jersey take a Wyoming certificate?

Yes, proof of good standing issued by Wyoming.

Can the Wyoming agent act in New Jersey?

Only with New Jersey authority and an office here.

Does the filing become public?

Yes, it does.

Our fee and the New Jersey fee

Register in New Jersey

New Jersey

$199

+ $100 New Jersey fee

The New Jersey Public Records Filing, completed from your answers
A check that the home-state good standing certificate is ready to attach
Our New Jersey agent and office, or an agent of your own choosing
The filed record is returned to you
Renewal: after the first year, the agent service renews at $149 a year

The Treasury's fee for a foreign LLC is $100, and checkout lists it on its own line, separate from our charge. $199 plus the state fee, including your first year of registered agent service; after that the agent service renews at $149 a year.

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